naivete

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n. Alternative spelling of naïveté.

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The no-driving thing, for one, and the fact that he "got the Internet" only two years ago, and he phrases it that way, too -- "Got the Internet," the way parents "use the Google" -- though at times one wonders how much the naivete is shtick.

Telling people who are outraged that their naivete is mockable is the moral equivalent of telling a teenager with a desire to become an artist that they're better off getting a secretarial job than trying for a scholarship, and they should plan for disappointment.

We're not drooling lemmings, mindlessly bleating about the loss of a superstar through his naivete - in other words, we're not stupid, and we don't particularly enjoy being called stupid on a website whose cache is seventh-grade-level tit-and-dick jokes made by alleged grown-ups.